The Spanish-language film Oriane is a mystery fan`s nightmare: It has no resolution or explanation of the events. As well as being poorly edited, excruciatingly slow to develop and replete with double-flashback sequences, this joint French-Venezuelan film simply is not that interesting. The story begins in the present, when a young French woman named Marie, played drably by Daniela Silverio, receives word that her Aunt Oriane has died, leaving her a hacienda in a remote Venezuelan jungle locale.

Two new exhibits in Delray Beach take visitors on a cultural and musical journey into the mid-20th century. The Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture spotlights the 1950s through the 1970s with photographs and memorabilia featuring pop music star Elvis Presley and items representing popular activities of the era. "It's nostalgic, and people are crazy for nostalgia," said museum director Gloria Rejune Adams. "It just brings back a good feeling of the past. " "FLASHBACK: A Retro Look at the '60s & '70s" includes a couple hundred items, like games, record albums, Kodak and Polaroid cameras and photography accessories, a Fender Mustang guitar, and a significant amount of Presley memorabilia.

At times such as these, after a week such as the one just completed, you begin to wonder just how dominant Bernard King could have been. Would he have become to forwards what Michael Jordan has become to guards? Or, perhaps, is a torn anterior cruciate ligament not as dreaded a knee injury as athletes have come to believe? The first set of numbers: King missed the entire 1985-86 season and all but six games in 1986-87 with the injury. When he returned last season, he averaged 17.2 points for the Bullets after averaging 32.9 for the Knicks in 1984-85, the season of his injury.

Game 1 Sept. 17, 1972 Miami Dolphins 20, Kansas City Chiefs 10 Game highlights Jake Scott's interception with less than a minute remaining in the first half at the first-ever game at Arrowhead Stadium set up a Larry Csonka touchdown three plays later, giving the Dolphins an insurmountable 17-0 lead at the intermission. Scott also covered up a fumble by Chiefs All-Pro wide receiver Otis Taylor in the fourth quarter as Miami coasted to the finish. Csonka rushed for 118 yards, the seventh 100-yard-plus game of his career, and scored a touchdown for Miami.

After a half-decade hiatus, cinematic bad boy Gregg Araki is back with the previously NC-17-rated and now currently unrated Mysterious Skin. Those who can recall only his last, mainstream effort Splendor, need to be reminded: Araki deals in cutting-edge repulsion, and it's all over his newest film. But nothing from the filmmaker's earlier teens-gone-wild resume can prepare even Araki fans for the images of 8-year-olds engaged in sexual acts. Obviously, Araki doesn't actually show boys having sex with men. But he gets the idea across so surely, with such vivid clarity about the details, that the mind easily fills in the graphic blanks.

When I listened to President Bush's meeting with the press the other night, two vivid flashbacks came to me. When he declared that he had the right to do what he wanted by virtue of his occupying the office of the presidency, the memory came to mind of Richard Nixon declaring that when the president does something it's not illegal. A few seconds later, Mr. Bush denounced a great newspaper for having exposed his malefaction. This time an image of The Washington Post and its two intrepid reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, flashed on my field of vision.

Flashback: The years are 1964 and `65, what are the top five TV shows? Recall: Bonanza, Bewitched, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Andy Griffith Show and The Fugitive. Flashback: The year is 1962, who is the biggest female box-office draw? Recall: Doris Day. Flashback: The year is 1969, what are the top five songs on the charts? Recall: I Heard It Through the Grapevine, by Marvin Gaye; Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In, by the 5th Dimension; Sugar, Sugar, by the Archies; In the Year 2525, by Zager and Evans; and Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone.

Fatal Memories is a movie about flashbacks, told in flashbacks that might inspire flashbacks. Some viewers are sure to think, "Haven`t I seen this before?" It`s possible. L.A. Law had a similar story last season. Given the NBC series penchant for creating storylines from real-life incidents, that segment could have been inspired by the events in the fact-based Fatal Memories. Shelley Long stars as Eileen Franklin, a happily married mother of two. Out of the blue, Eileen looks at her daughter one day and sees the face of a long- forgotten childhood friend, who had been savagely murdered when both were 9 years old. This first traumatic episode triggers a flood of repressed memories.

Ladder 49 is a solid, old-fashioned firefighting melodrama. It's a string of sentimental snapshots of a firefighter's life told in flashback as he and his crew fight for his life in a towering inferno where he has been trapped. Every cliche in every movie or TV show about firefighters is recycled here, but often to pleasant effect. A comfortable leading-man turn by Joaquin Phoenix, a professional supporting performance by John Travolta and a knowing way with the fires themselves don't make for cutting-edge drama.

The little incident happened in the late 1970s, on a date with a girl who was 19 or 20. We had gone to a movie called The Big Fix, in which Richard Dreyfuss played a burned-out protester from the `60s, who couldn`t adjust to the `70s. I don`t recall much about the movie, except where Dreyfuss was having flashbacks to his days as a protester at Berkeley. In the flashbacks, there were demonstrations, there was violence in the streets, and there was general turmoil over Vietnam. So it looked like your basic newsreel from 1968.

Seth Rudetsky's new act -- more or less -- comes from a childhood listening to show tunes on his record player and watching variety specials on television. "I've always deconstructed performances," said Rudetsky. "I can remember being in like sixth grade and listening to 'Ain't Misbehaving.' I was obsessed with that show, the whole cast album. I called my best friend and played him Nell Carter singing 'Cash for Your Trash' -- the end -- and I'm screaming into the phone, 'She just belted and E. An E!

Seth Rudetsky's new act -- more or less -- comes from a childhood listening to show tunes on his record player and watching variety specials on television. "I've always deconstructed performances," said Rudetsky. "I can remember being in like sixth grade and listening to 'Ain't Misbehaving.' I was obsessed with that show, the whole cast album. I called my best friend and played him Nell Carter singing 'Cash for Your Trash' -- the end -- and I'm screaming into the phone, 'She just belted and E. An E!

Tears for Fears The Brit duo had a decade of musical dominance, owning the '80s with such singles as "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and "Shout. " Fans went "Head Over Heels" for the band's blend of melodic pop and psychedelia. Expect to hear new material as well as such stand-bys as "Change," "Mad World" and "Pale Shelter. " Where: Broward Center Au-Rene Theater, 201 SW Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale When: 8 p.m. Tuesday Tickets: $35-$75; 954-462-0222 or Ticketmaster

Coffins are stacked and readied for victims of the hurricane, near Belle Glade. Courtesy of the Historical Society of Palm Beach Eighty years ago, families witnessed unfathomable losses. The category 4 hurricane swept across South Florida killing and drowning an estimated 3,000 people. The hurricane forced Lake Okeechobee to breach its shores. See an animation that shows the rise in lake levels and flooding, produced by the Tropical Prediction Center. Take a look at photos from the hurricane's destruction provided by the National Weather Service of the following cities: Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Lake Worth, Palm Beach, West Palm Beach and Pompano Beach.

Katrina Chester, who played Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway musical Love, Janis, brings the late rock icon's music to life. She joins former Three Dog Night singer Chuck Negron for this arena-sized re-creation of classic-rock hits from Joplin, the Doors, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, among others. Chester, the daughter of the late studio drummer Gary Chester, doesn't think of her Joplin performance as an impersonation. "I don't get up there and try to imitate [Joplin] or do a tribute," she says.

Soldiers' experiences during the Vietnam War were once a popular background for mysteries, but many authors have turned to contemporary battles such as Iraq and Bosnia as their setting. Craig Johnson not only revisits the horrors of the Vietnam War in his fourth mystery featuring Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire, the author puts a 21st century spin on it. Another Man's Moccasins emerges as an insightful look at various forms of racism, human trafficking and confronting your own prejudices.

She clutched the fence with her left hand, pressed her face against it. She stared long and hard into the hole where the World Trade Center once stood and 2,801 died a year ago. She appeared almost in a trance, a look of unspeakable sorrow seeping out with sniffles and tears. "When you come here, there are flashbacks," Careen Alphonso said. "And the flashbacks hurt." She is 22, a college student from Queens. She didn't know anybody who was killed. Still, something brought her to Ground Zero on Tuesday, something powerful and primal, the pit in her stomach needing to connect with the pit beneath her on Liberty Street.

This week's highlights in entertainment history: 50 years ago: Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe and Marilyn Monroe starred in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle. 30 years ago: The Who performed the rock opera Tommy at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Bob Dylan was awarded an honorary doctorate in music from Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. And Godfrey Cambridge starred in Cotton Comes to Harlem, directed by Ossie Davis. 25 years ago: Elton John's Captain antastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy became the first album to enter the U.S. charts at No. 1, where it stayed for seven weeks.

A Thousand Bones. P.J. Parrish. Pocket Star Books. $7.99. 496 pp. Looking back, 1975 was one of those years that sat on the cusp of change. Sure, the civil rights and women's movements and the Stonewall Riots already had happened. But the pre-computer, pre-cellular phone year of 1975 was when things finally began to happen. P.J. Parrish richly taps into that time of change and its impact in the multilayered A Thousand Bones, which doubles as an exciting police procedural as well as a study about a young woman coming to terms with her ambition, her sense of self and her skills.

What do you remember about the Summer of Love? It was 1967 and thousands of people headed to San Francisco for a new kind of social experiment. The 40th anniversary is being marked with CD releases, art exhibits and the Kindness Festival in Delray Beach. We're looking for readers to share their memories from the 1960s. Were you a hippie? Do the values of that time still guide your beliefs today? Were you too young, but intrigued? E-mail jtanasychuk@sun-sentinel or call 954-356-4632. If you have photos, e-mail jpegs.